The EU foreign ministers are meeting, on Monday, in Brussels, for the first time since the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visits to Ukraine, Russia, China and the United States, and the meeting is expected to discuss the reaction of the community block to this tour, which did not have the EU approval, EFE reported on Sunday. All EU countries, except Slovakia, and the EU institutions have condemned Orban’s meetings with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the former US President and the Republican presidential candidate in the November 5 election, Donald Trump, insisting that he has no mandate to speak on behalf of the community bloc about the war in Ukraine. The 27 members are divided on how to show their discontent: they do not agree on whether they should boycott the informal meetings held during Hungary’s six-month presidency of the EU Council, by sending to these meetings some lower-ranking officials instead of the line ministers. The EU countries’ foreign ministers will talk about military support for Ukraine, especially in terms of anti-aircraft defense, about the war in Gaza and its possible extension to the rest of the Middle East.
